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- 7 Ways to Smile Your Way Through the Tokyo Marathon (or any run)
- February 19th, 2014
- My secret to surviving the Tokyo marathon last year was not finding the perfect pair of shoes, fuel, or training plan. All of these were important, as were proper hyd ...
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- Harajuku Thrift: Not Your Grandma’s Vintage… oh wait.
- September 27th, 2013
- If you’re coming to Tokyo, you’re going to shop. It’s part of the Tokyo experience. I recently stepped out to film a Tokyo Minute segment on vintage shopping in Haraj ...
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- GPodding with Anthony: Modeling in Japan
- December 9th, 2013
- Download the Podcast | Follow on SoundCloud | Subscribe on iTunes This week’s GaijinPot podcast is a nice wrap up on the Modeling in Japan series. The articles go in ...
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- Fukushima Love: IMA’s Tokyo Flea Market 11/17
- November 12th, 2013Category: Events
- 3/11. We hear a lot in the news about misdirected culpability and averted government responsibility, but not so much about the local causes making a direct impact on lives of the people who lived there. The fact is, there are hundreds of thousands of people from the Toh ... » Continue Reading
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- Eat, Drink, and Be Genki… Let’s Go to Osaka
- November 8th, 2013Category: Food & Dining, Shopping, Travel
- Okay Tokyo people: it’s time. The holiday hoo ha is ramping up and the leaves are changing. Get ready to hop on a train for the West Side of the island and do the tourist holy trinity: Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. Rather than hit all of the usual castle-temple-shrine-y goodn ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo Rental Office Rush – Tokyo Synergy Office
- November 5th, 2013Category: Work, Work Tips
- Experienced business travelers and those used to running their business on the go have no problems finding accommodation but to give themselves an office address to work from? That's harder. Hotel lobbies, business centers and even coffee shops make for useful meetin ... » Continue Reading
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- Culture Day
- November 4th, 2013Category: Culture
- Culture Day, or 文化の日, is one of the very few holidays in Japan that is not liable to change due to the “Happy Monday” system, which sees most national holidays fall on a Monday. Culture Day is celebrated on the 3rd of November every year and gives most the day off ... » Continue Reading
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- The Difficulties of Becoming a Salary-Man
- November 1st, 2013Category: Work Tips
- It's funny how hard I worked for this stupid piece of metal. It’s a common story: you came here to teach English not knowing what else to do or where it’ll take you. You have a couple years of working experience in Japan. You graduated from a decent university. F ... » Continue Reading
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- Ahoy hoy! Pillaging Laughs with The Pirates of Tokyo Bay
- October 31st, 2013Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Wait what? A live, improv, comedy show… in two languages? But, Japanese and Western humor are so different- how does that work? They get suggestions for skits from the audience? This is MADNESS. As the only bilingual improv group in Tokyo, The Pirates of Tokyo Bay g ... » Continue Reading
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- Gifu Cormorant Fishing 2013
- October 30th, 2013Category: Culture, Events, Travel
- Ukai or Cormorant Fishing has taken place along the famous Nagara River in Gifu for more than 1300 years. It is a traditional fishing method that uses trained cormorants to catch river fish. The samurai warlord Oda Nobunaga took the ukai fisherman under his patronage an ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo’s Beauty Billboard Top 10: RanKing RanQueen
- October 25th, 2013Category: Shopping
- With so many beauty-girl products on the shelves, it’s easy for the foreign lady to get her brain scrambled trying to figure out what’s what. Apparently, the same applies to the local girls—hence the ranking of the bestest in beauty at RanKing RanQueen. (See what they d ... » Continue Reading
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- Gifu Nobunaga Festival 2013
- October 22nd, 2013Category: Culture, Events
- The Gifu Nobunaga Festival is held on the first Saturday and Sunday of October. The festival honours the memory and feats of Oda Nobunaga, a samurai warlord who used Gifu City as a base on his mission to unify Japan during the warring states period (Sengoku Period). It ... » Continue Reading
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- Lighting up Japan for fun. An interview with the Managing Director of Tejix
- October 21st, 2013Category: Starting a Business
- France based Tejix is a design and consulting company specializing in the design and implementation of technical systems for theme park attractions. They cover areas such as sound, video, lighting, special effects and attraction automation. Tejix combines the expe ... » Continue Reading
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- Halloween Snacks in Japan
- October 21st, 2013Category: Culture, Food & Dining
- Autumn is one of the best times of year in Japan for seasonal food and drink. Some of the seasonal delicacies include kabocha (Japanese pumpkin) kuri (chestnuts) and satsumaimo (sweet potato). During the summer I wrote about some of the summer snacks that were available ... » Continue Reading
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- Kai Azabu Juban: The BBQ SPAM incident
- October 20th, 2013Category: Food & Dining
- I was ready to review White Smoke in Azabu Juban, because I’d heard the BBQ is magical and authentic and will touch your soul in deep and meaningful ways. So I grabbed Anthony Joh, and we headed to Azabu to eat sticky stuff with our hands. You can imagine how sad we wer ... » Continue Reading